Ethnic and Racial Consciousness

1. Introduction:
Modes of discourse, The sources of group consciousness.
2. Naming differences:
Practical language, Name-changing, Legal language, Conflict.
3. Accounting for differences:
Explanations, Natural Selection, Ethnicity, Racism, Looking ahead.
4. Groups and individuals:
Ends and means, Experimental research, Encounters between peoples, Continuous and discontinuous ranking interation.
5. Peoples and states:
Implications of empire, Rwanda and Burundi, Genocide, Constitutional engineering, Conclusion.
6. Increasing group consciousness:
Racial classification, Segregation, Sanctions, Group Competition, Transmitted inequality, The sphere of the state, Conclusion.
7. Decreasing group consciousness:
The second Reconstruction in the USa, The prospects for South Africa, Ethnic consciousness in Western Europe, Negotiating change, Conclusion.
8. International oversight:
Regional organisations, UN Treaty bodies, The Development of policy in the UK, The UK report as a case study, CERD'S reception of the UK's Thirteenth report, Conclusion.
9. Collective action:
Morale, The nation-state, Religion, Diversity, Conclusion.
Glossary.
Bibliography.
Index.